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annoyed, murmured, and had become angry; these Bhikkhus told this thing to the Blessed One. (He replied): “This noise, O Bhikkhus, will not last long; it will last only seven days; after seven days it will be over. And if they revile you, O Bhikkhus, in this stanza: “The great Samana has come, &c.," you should reply to the revilers in the following stanza : "It is by means of the true doctrine that the great heroes, the Tathagatas, lead men. Who will murmur at the wise, who lead men by the power of the Truth?”.
7. At that time the people, when seeing the Bhikkhus, reviled them in the following stanza : 'The great Samana has come, &c.'
Then the Bhikkhus replied to the revilers in the following stanza : 'It is by means of the true doctrine, &c.'
Then the people understood: 'It is by truth, and not by wrong, that the Sakyaputtiya Samanas lead men;' and thus that noise lasted only seven days, and after seven days it was over.
Here ends the narration of the ordination of
Sâriputta and Moggallâna.
End of the fourth Bhânavara.
251 1. At that time some Bhikkhus, as they had no upagghầyas (preceptors) and received no exhorta
1 The chief object of the first book being to discuss the regulations for the upasampada ordination, at which the preceptor
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